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Moore, Kermit (1929-2013)
Over a long distinguished career Kermit Moore has been a cellist of outstanding acclaim, an orchestra conductor, composer, teacher, and mentor. Through these activities in classical music he has been successful in breaking down racial and social
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Langston Hughes
One of the most famous poets, Langston Hughes was born in the year
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1
1902
Anderson, Lauren (1965- )
When Lauren Anderson was promoted to principal dancer with the Houston Ballet in 1990, she became the first female African American principal dancer in the United States and, at the time, the world’s only African American prima ballerina heading a major ballet
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovahs Witnesses, Christian group originating in the United States at the end of the 19th cent., organized by Charles Taze Russell , whose doctrine centers on the Second Coming of Christ. The Witnesses believe that the event has already commenced they also believe the battle of Armageddon is
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Rwandan Genocide (1994)
Beginning on April 7, 1994 and lasting until mid-July of the same year, the Rwandan Genocide was the government-mandated killing of Tutsis and Hutu political moderates.  Having commenced in the capital city of Kigali, the violence spread rapidly throughout the Rwandan countryside where, in less
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Jerry Rice
Jerry Rice, born on October 13, 1962 in Starkville, Mississippi is a former American wide receiver. Rice grew up in Crawford, Mississippi and was the son of a brick mason. He attended Mississippi Valley State University as it was the only university that offered Rice a scholarship. As a high school
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Oct
13
1962
The new Museum of African American History opens in Detroit.It is the largest
The new Museum of African American History opens in Detroit. It is the largest of its kind in the world.
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11
1997
Brown, Willie Lewis, Jr. (1934- )
This State Legislator and Mayor was born in Mineola, Texas, to Willie L. Brown, Sr., and Minnie (Boyd) Lewis on March 20, 1934. After migrating to San Francisco, California in 1951, Brown worked as a janitor in order to subsidize his education at San Francisco State University. Upon his arrival in
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Mar
20
1934
Harris, Barbara C. (1930- )
Religious leader Barbara Clementine Harris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Walter and Beatrice (Price) Harris on June 12, 1930. After graduating from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism, she joined Joseph V. Baker Associates, Inc., a black-owned public relations
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Famous Black Astrologer not Psychic!
James Black was one of the first famous Black Astrologer in the early 70s! He lived in Chicago on the southside. He was born around 1910-1911! He read for clients like Earth Wind & Fire, Aura Ajayi, a famous psychic and countless more all over the world!He was once featured in Ebony Magazine!
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Sep
8
1911
Touissant L'Ouverture, born
Birthday of Haitian revolutionary Pierre-Dominique Touissant LOverture. There had been slave revolts before: in the Caribbean, in South America, and in
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20
1743
Diana Ross
Born: 3/26/1944 Detroit, MichiganAs an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer. Born and raised in Detroit, she rose to fame as a founding member and lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motowns most successful act and is to this day Americas
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(1921) Marcus Garvey “Address to the Second UNIA Convention”
By 1921 the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was well on its way to becoming the largest predominately black organization in the world.  Marcus Garvey, the UNIAs founder, however, already recognized W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP as its chief rival.  In his closing night speech to the
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Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie spent more than a decade as a saxophonist and lead singer with The Commodores, a funk-pop group formed in 1968. Richie grew to become the bands most famous face, a silky crooner and ladies man who penned ripe ballads like Easy, Sail On and Three Times a Lady. Richie split the band in
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Gabourey Sidibe
Gabourey Sidibe, nicknamed Gabby, is an Academy Award nominated actress who made her acting debut in 2009. She was born on May 6, 1983 in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother, Alice Tan Ridley, is a special education teacher turned R&B singer who performed on the television show “America’s Got
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1983
Lawrence, Jacob & Gwendolyn Knight
Jacob Lawrence, born in 1917 in Atlantic City, N.J., moved to New York City at age thirteen.  Gwendolyn Knight, born in 1913, in Barbados, West Indies, arrived in the U.S. at age seven, and spent her first years in St. Louis.  She arrived in New York City on the threshold of her teens.  Knight and
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Port-au-Spain, Trinidad (1650- )
Port-au-Spain is the capital and third largest city of the island nation Trinidad and Tobago in the southwestern West Indies and north of the South American nation of Venezuela. The city, which is only about 5 square miles, had a population of 37,074 people in 2011 but its surrounding metropolitan
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Congo democratic republic
Laurent Kabila and his long-standing but little-known guerrilla movement launched a seven-month campaign that ousted Mobutu in May 1997, ending one of the worlds most corrupt and megalomaniacal regimes. The last of the CIA-nurtured cold war despots, Mobutu deftly courted France and the U.S., which
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(1965) Malcolm X, “Speech at Ford Auditorium”
On February 13, 1965, Malcolm Xs home in New York City was bombed.  He and his family were not hurt and he decided to keep a longstanding speaking commitment at Detroit, arriving the next day to give the presentation below.  This proved however to be his last public appearance.  One week later on
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Feb
13
1965
Sitati, Joseph W. (1952– )
While Sitati embraced Mormonism, the Kenyan government, wary of Western religions, did not recognize the LDS Church as an approved faith. The government also limited assembly of all non-recognized religions to nine people. Sitati maneuvered around the assembly law by organizing nine-person groups
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Harry Belafonte
“The Banana Boat Song” was co-written by actor Alan Arkin… Belafonte studied drama in New York in the same class of young actors as Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger and Walter Matthau… His daughter, Shari Belafonte, is a model and actress (she starred in the 1980s TV series Hotel)… Belafonte
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Elijah Muhammad, born
Elijah Muhummad was born Elijah Poole in
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Oct
10
1897
Slavery
King Charles II of england charters the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa to supply 3,000 enslaved Africans annually to the West Indies.
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Jan
0
1662
The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington
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Thomas Stewart
Many inventions were born from necessity and others for convenience. Others, however, are designed to lessen the drudgery and unpleasentness of daily tasks. Such was the invention of Thomas
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(1957) Roy Wilkins, “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back”
In 1957 Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was next to Rev. Martin Luther King, the most recognized civil rights leader in the nation.  In October of that year he addressed the Commonwealth Club of California five weeks after
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World renowed opera singer, Shirley Verrett, makes her debut in New York City, 1958
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Nov
4
1958
George Washington Carver
Born in Missouri around 1864 during the years of Civil War (the exact date and year in which he was born not being known), George Washington Carver was a son of an enslaved couple, Mary and Giles. Only a week after his birth, invaders from Arkansas, a neighboring state, kidnapped him along with his
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